Seneca: The Tragedies

by Seneca

Book Overview

Plays and translators: Octavia, Kelly Cherry * Hercules Oetaeus, Stephen Sandy * Oedipus, Rachel Hadas * The Phoenician Women, David Slavitt * Hercules Furens, Dana Gioia.

Are there no limits to human cruelty? Is there any divine justice? Do the gods even matter if they do not occupy themselves with rewarding virtue and punishing wickedness? Seneca's plays might be dismissed as bombastic and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801849322
• ISBN13: 9780801849329
• Release Date: December 1995
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.0"